Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott ( born August 2, 1862 in Ottawa, † December 19, 1947 ibid ) was a Canadian poet and storyteller.

Scott had his school education for financial reasons after the junior college in 1879 and took a job with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He worked there until 1932 and recently held the post of deputy superintendent held.

Scott, who had completed his piano studies in his youth, first had musical ambitions. It was not until the late 1880s, he began encouraged by his friend Archibald Lampman to write regular posts for the Scribner 's Magazine. 1892/93 he wrote with William Wilfred Campbell Lapman and a weekly column under the title At the Mermaid Inn for the magazine Globe. In 1893 he published his first volume of poetry The Magic House and Other Poems, the seven others followed. His first collection of short stories was published in 1896 under the title In the Village of Viger.

In his stories and poems Scott often thematized life and culture of the Native Americans, whom he met on canoe trips in the Northern access Ontario with his friend Lapman in the 1890s. After the death Lampmans 1899, he oversaw the publication of several of his books of poetry.

After his retirement in 1932 Scott undertook with his second wife, writer Elise Aylen, traveled extensively throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe, but wrote very little. His last volume of poetry, The Circle of Affection, and Other Pieces in Prose and Verse appeared in 1947 a few months before his death.

In addition to short stories and poems Scott also wrote a biography of John Graves Simcoes (1905 ) and a book about Walter Joseph Phillips. For the Ottawa Little Theatre, he wrote in 1923, the one-act drama Pierre. A novel was published posthumously in 1979 under the title The Untitled Novel. A collection of short stories was published in 2001 under the title The Uncollected Short Stories of Duncan Campbell Scott.

For his literary work Scott has received many awards. He was a Fellow in 1899, 1921 President of the Royal Society of Canada. The University of Toronto awarded him in 1922, the Queen's University in 1939 an honorary doctorate, and in 1927 he was awarded for his contribution to Canadian literature, the Lorne Pierce Medal.

Works

  • The Magic House, and Other Poems, 1893
  • In the Village of Viger, short stories, 1896
  • The Magic House: Labor and the Angel, poems, 1898
  • New World Lyrics and Ballads, 1905
  • Via Borealis, poems, 1906
  • Lundy 's Lane and Other Poems, 1916
  • Beauty and Life, poems, 1921
  • The Witching of Elspie. A Book of Stories, 1923
  • The Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott, 1926
  • The Green Cloister, poems, 1935
  • The Circle of Affection, and Other Pieces in Prose and Verse, 1947
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